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Carlton Fields provides services related to all aspects of real property acquisition, development, financing, leasing, ownership, use, and transfer. Our clients include landowners, developers, real estate investment trusts, pension fund advisors, architects, construction companies, brokers, lenders, banks, property management firms, tenants, and governmental authorities. We represent them in connection with the acquisition of land parcels, necessary governmental and regulatory approvals, financing of costs of improvements, construction of facilities, management and leasing of space, and disposition of property. We become an integral part of our clients’ team and are focused on helping them achieve their business goals.

Our commercial real estate and finance lawyers represent many of the country’s largest and most sophisticated life insurance companies, commercial banks, Wall Street investors, private equity funds, conduits, originals, master and special servicers, pension fund advisors, ratings agencies, and other institutional clients in the full range of real estate transactions and other investments. Learn more about our institutional investment and finance capabilities.

Once our clients’ real estate investments are onboarded, Carlton Fields attorneys provide ongoing legal assistance in connection with their management of those assets. Institutional lenders seek our advice when presented with difficult loan servicing requests or when they require assistance with loans in danger of default. We provide value to our clients that own commercial and industrial buildings by implementing and executing principled leasing programs. Our clients turn to us when thorny land use and environmental issues arise, or when careful tax planning or strategizing is required. Condominium associations and resort developers seek our advice to address project issues. We maintain institutional knowledge of our client’s priorities and procedures, and provide tailored, customer-oriented services. Learn more about our asset management services.

We help clients structure, negotiate, and document complex real estate and resort developments. These projects include master planned and mixed-use communities; condominiums; subdivisions; timeshares; country clubs and golf courses; hotel and resort developments; and destinations. From a project’s concept phase to its financing, construction, marketing, sales, and management phases, we represent and work closely with developers, foreign and domestic sources of capital, architects, contractors, brokers, marketers, managers, and governmental authorities. Learn more about our development capabilities.

Although every real estate project involves its own set of challenges, certain asset classes require a legal team with a deep understanding of the industry. Carlton Fields has the experience and skill required to provide effective client representation. Learn more about our representation of unique asset classes.

Carlton Fields handles all types of real property litigation. Our lawyers regularly represent clients in a very wide range of commercial disputes that involve every aspect of the rights and duties associated with real property. We represent clients in state and federal courts across the country, as well as in matters before arbitration panels and administrative bodies. Learn more about our real property litigation capabilities.

Outstanding real estate practice, offering deep knowledge of all aspects of real estate transactions such as acquisitions, financing and sales. Provides expert counsel on loan resolution, title insurance and leases. Works in a number of states across the region and country. Industry sources highlight the firm's "great financing practice."

August 1, 2017

In Minnick v. Automotive Creations, Inc., the court reaffirmed an employer’s right to have a policy whereby a worker’s entitlement to vacation pay does not vest until after their first anniversary of employment.

July 13, 2017

In a big blow to employers, the California Supreme Court unanimously held that plaintiffs and their lawyers must be given access to companywide employee contact information—including addresses and phone numbers—at the onset of a lawsuit and without first establishing a prima facie showing their case has merit.

June 19, 2017

May 15, 2017

This is the second of a three-part series on the business and legal issues that arise in developing and owning hotels. In the first podcast, "Hotels 101," attorneys Dan Weede and David Adams discussed the basic legal and business issues unique to developing and owning hotels, including the brand's impact on creating and maintaining the hotel's value; the roles of various agreements in hotel deals, specifically the management agreement; franchise and loan agreements; and the basic metrics used to evaluate a hotel's financial performance. In this podcast, Dan and David discuss some of the more important issues in a hotel purchase and sale agreement, with a particular focus on the legal rights investors need to properly evaluate a hotel acquisition.

May 3, 2017

Investment advisers, securities brokers, and other financial professionals who work directly with clients who are age 60 and older have two reasons to learn more about Florida’s financial elder abuse laws.

April 28, 2017

Welcome to another “Carlton Fields Real Insights on Real Estate” podcast. Today we’re going to talk about an issue that is often glossed over in real estate transactions -- the subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreement and how to review it from the perspective of a lender.

April 4, 2017

On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, an en banc 7th Circuit became the first federal appellate court to find that prohibited sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

March 21, 2017

Investing in or developing a hotel property is very different from other types of real estate, and there are numerous issues that first-time investors and developers need to consider. This podcast, the first in a three-part series on the hotel industry, provides an introduction to hotel development and ownership.

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